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美媒赛后评论文：勒布朗的馈赠和乔丹一样完美(尽管总决赛三胜五负)
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其中的第二篇文章:
LeBron's legacy -- 3-5 Finals record and all -- is as intact as MJ's
我在此代发，希望回复不要挑起乔丹和老詹地位比较的口水，只是想表达在美媒和很多
理智球迷眼里，老詹的总决赛之旅从来不是什么黑点，而是一个传奇！与其黑来黑去比
来比去，不如共同见证他的伟大和篮球的魅力！
中英对照：
OAKLAND, Calif. -- For a moment, just imagine if LeBron James and
theCleveland Cavaliers lost to the Toronto Raptors in the second round of
the playoffs.
Now imagine those Raptors moving on to the NBA Finals, eventually getting
swept by the league’s best team, the 2017 champion Golden State Warriors.
What would the commentary be surrounding James right now? In today’s hot-
take culture and with all the in-progress legacy judging, what sort of
scrutiny would James be facing on a daily basis?
奥克兰，金州。花几分钟，我们想象一下，如果詹姆斯和他的克里夫兰骑士队，在季后
赛的第二轮输给了多伦多猛龙。
接着，再设想，猛龙来到了NBA的决赛场上，最终被全联盟最优秀的球队，2017年的总
冠军金州勇士横扫。
那么，现在围绕着詹姆斯的评论，将会是如何？在今日这样一个追逐热点的文化和乐于
做生涯评判的环境中，詹姆斯将会面临一种怎样的日常评点？
Here’s why that question is relevant: James, at age 32, just ended this
Finals run short of winning a fourth championship.
Now let’s step back to 1995 for a moment. That year, a 32-year-old Michael
Jordanlost in the second round of the playoffs to the Orlando Magic, a team
that eventually got roasted in the Finals by the Houston Rockets in a sweep.
Jordan’s attempt at winning his fourth title came up short -- well short,
in fact.
这是为什么这个问题是有关系的：詹姆斯，在他32岁的年纪，刚刚结束了他追逐第四个
冠军时的失败之旅。
现在让我们暂时退回到1995年。那一年，32岁的迈克尔乔丹在季后赛第二轮输给了奥兰
多魔术，而这支球队在总决赛时被休斯敦火箭队横扫。乔丹所尝试的第四次染指总冠军
失败了。是的，实际上就是失败了。
James has already graduated to no longer playing against just the opponents
in front of him and instead must grapple with an invisible man to feed the
appetite of the modern sports fan.
Jordan hasn’t taken a shot in the NBA in 14 years and hasn’t played a
playoff minute in almost 20, since sweeping pastBryon Russell and the Utah
Jazz in 1998. Jordan’s body of work has aged like the fine red wine James
will be drinking over the next few weeks as he decompresses from a fifth
Finals loss.
Of course, the circumstances are different. Jordan took 18 months off after
his first three title runs to play baseball. During that same span in James
’ career, he has been busy dragging two Cleveland teams into the Finals to
be series underdogs.
詹姆斯已经不再需要和他面前的对手进行搏斗了，取而代之的是，他需要跟一个看不见
的人搏斗，以满足现代体育迷的胃口。
乔丹已经有14年没有在NBA打球了，以季后赛算的话，1998年击败拜伦拉塞尔和他的犹
他爵士队后，他已经远离这片赛场20年。乔丹的身体已经老的跟詹姆斯在接下来的几周
内从第五次总决赛失利中解压时喝的红酒一样。
Jordan got a pass for losing to the Magic because he came back midseason
that year. But a case could be made he had an advantage because he had fresh
legs. He certainly didn’t come back expecting to lose in the playoffs; he
came back to win the title that the Rockets walked away with.
When was the last time James got a pass for anything? Maybe for the 2015
Finals, when Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving were stripped away because of
injuries and the Cavs lost in six games to the Warriors.
It didn’t feel like a pass when James spent the past year being told he was
aDraymond Green Game 5 suspension away from having lost three straight
Finals. James averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists in the
2015 Finals. He finished this year’s with averages of 33.6 points, 12
rebounds, and 10 assists, becoming the first player to average a triple-
double in the Finals.
乔丹因为在赛季中期复出而被魔术队淘汰。但是他同时也具有优势，原因在于他的身体
毫无劳损。当他回到场上，他不是想来输球的；他回来，是为了赢回休斯顿火箭队所带
走的总冠军。
那么，勒布朗上一次被淘汰是什么时候？大概是2015年的总决赛，凯里欧文和凯文勒夫
均因伤退赛，而骑士队在与勇士的第六场对决中败下阵来。
这与勒布朗在去年不断听到有人逼逼的，他通过第五场跨过德雷蒙德格林而避免输掉后
三场不一样。詹姆斯在2015年总决赛中场均砍下35.8分，13.3个篮板，8.8个助攻。而
他今年砍下了场均33.6分，12个篮板，10个助攻，成为了总决赛中第一位砍下场均三双
的球员。
This, after passing Jordan as the all-time leader in playoff scoring.
Despite what critics might think, that is not the résumé of a loser.
James has been to the Finals eight times, six of those as the Vegas underdog
. Give that poker hand to anyone else in NBA history and see how many come
up with three titles. See how many more could’ve been so statistically
dominant in defeat as James has been.
We constantly hear about Jordan being a spotless 6-0 in the Finals, but we
don’t hear that Jordan was 6-7 in getting to the Finals in his 13
postseasons, and James is now 8-4 in his 12 postseasons.
在超越乔丹而成为历史季后赛的得分王后，无论批评言论如何，这都不会是一个失败者
的简历。
詹姆斯已经打入总决赛有八次之多，而其中六次都是下狗。把这样一副牌交到NBA历史
的任何一个人手里，你可以看看能有多少人可以赢下三个总冠军。你可以想想，有多少
人可以在这些生理之中有詹姆斯这般统治力十足的数据统计。
我们不断听到关于乔丹完美的总决赛战绩：6-0，但我们没怎么听到人说，在他13个赛
季的季后赛征战中，冲出东部份额战绩是6-7，而詹姆斯现在在他12年季后赛的征战中
，是8-4.
"This is my eighth trip to the Finals, and I’ve had some pretty good ones
in my day," James said after his team bowed out in Game 5 on Monday night.
"I just try to do everything to just try to help this team win and more. And
I just try to put in the work. I put in the work individually, in the film
room, in my mind, my body every single day to prepare myself for whatever
obstacle that this ballclub entails. Does it always result in us winning? No
. This is my third year [back in Cleveland], and we haven’t won every game.
We haven’t won every Finals, obviously. We lost two of them. So, but like
I’ve always told myself, if you feel like you put in the work and you leave
it out on the floor, then you can always push forward and not look
backwards."
“这是我第八次总决赛了，在我过去我已经打出过许多很好的表现了。”詹姆斯在他的
球队输掉第五场之后如是说道。
“我尽我所能的帮助球队赢球，甚至更多（赢球以外的事）。我竭尽所能地投入工作。
我投入我，在电影院、在我的意识中，我的身体每天都为我准备好应对这些，无论球队
遇到怎样的艰难险阻。那是否就意味着我们一定能赢呢？不。这是我回家的第三年，我
们没有赢下所有比赛。明显，我们没有赢下每一次总决赛，我们输了两次。但是，就像
我总是告诉我自己的，如果你已经付出了所有，然后离开了这片赛场，你就可以继续前
行而无须频频回望。”
A year ago, with the Cavs looking as if they were going to lose again to the
Warriors, Hall of Famer Jerry West gave a full-throated defense of James’
career, his face turning red as he stood on the floor of Oracle Arena.
"You do your best, you try your best, you play your best and you’re still
not good enough to get your team to where you want to go, and that’s to be
last man standing," said West, who lost in the Finals eight times before
winning.
"You think you’re frustrated? How would you like to get there eight times
and not win? I told LeBron, ’I wanted to quit.’ In the height of my career
, I wanted to quit. I was so angry, so frustrated."
一年前，当骑士队看起来要再一次输给勇士队是，名人堂成员杰瑞韦斯特在甲骨文球场
上对詹姆斯的生涯进行了掷地有声的力辩。
“你尽你所能，你付出所有，你打出了你的最佳水准然而你仍然无法将球队带到你想要
带去的那个境地，你就是那最后一个站立着的男人。”在最后一次总决赛奏凯前，输掉
八次总决赛的韦斯特如是说道。
“你觉得你很绝望了？如果你八次进入总决赛但从未获胜，你会怎样？我跟勒布朗说，
‘我想要放弃’，在我职业生涯的那个高度上，我想要放弃。我愤怒而绝望着。”
West once almost punched a heckler who criticized him for his Finals record
when he was jogging through his neighborhood in Los Angeles in the offseason
. Imagine if he’d had Twitter.
Monday night, James pulled on a black hat and walked into the Oakland night
with his head held high and his shoulders back, declaring he accepted the
outcome because he’d left all of it on the floor.
Teams taken to Finals: Jordan and LeBron
Using the Simple Rating System, the chart below shows that Michael Jordan’s
Finals teams were juggernauts. They entered the championship series as the
top team in the league in SRS five of six times. Basketball Reference
describes SRS as a rating system based on average point differential and
strength of schedule.
韦斯特曾经击倒了一个对他的总决赛战绩评头论足的黑子邻居，当他在休赛期内在洛杉
矶散步的时候。想想看，如果他活在有推特的时代会是怎样。
周一晚上，詹姆斯戴着一顶黑色帽子进入了奥克兰，他挺着胸，舒肩展背，称他接受这
个结果，因为他已在场上倾其所有。
LeBron James’ Finals teams, on the other hand, entered the Finals as the
better SRS team only twice, but they played the best SRS team five times,
including the past three meetings with the Warriors.
YEAR TEAM SRS RANK OPP. SRS RANK SRS DIFF
1991 Bulls* 8.57 1 Lakers 6.73 3 1.84
1992 Bulls* 10.07 1 Blazers 6.94 2 3.13
1993 Bulls* 6.19 4 Suns 6.27 3 -0.08
1996 Bulls* 11.8 1 Sonics 7.4 2 4.4
1997 Bulls* 10.7 1 Jazz 7.97 2 2.73
1998 Bulls* 7.24 1 Jazz 5.73 5 1.51
Avg.: 2.255
2007 Cavs 3.33 7 Spurs 8.35 1 -5.02
2011 Heat 6.76 1 Mavs 4.41 8 2.35
2012 Heat* 5.72 4 Thunder 6.44 3 -0.72
2013 Heat* 7.03 2 Spurs 6.67 3 0.36
2014 Heat 4.15 7 Spurs 8 1 -3.85
2015 Cavs 4.08 6 Warriors 10.01 1 -5.93
2016 Cavs* 5.45 4 Warriors 10.38 1 -4.93
2017 Cavs 2.87 7 Warriors 11.35 1 -8.48
Avg.: -3.2775
Queen’s "We Are the Champions" was still echoing and with fireworks
exploding outside when Irving had his say. The point guard, his right quad
and lower back barking after suffering a hard fall during Game 5, rubbed his
face as he expressed his feelings on the Cavaliers’ leader.
皇后乐队的《我们是冠军》仍在回响，外面的烟火也仍然在绽放，欧文，这个在他的四
头肌和背部于第五场重重摔伤的得分后卫，擦了一把脸，表达了对他对骑士队的领袖的
看法。
"I think that some people would say that he’s on the toe of -- like he’s
on the line of greatness. But that guy is way over. Man, he’s freaking
awesome," Irving said.
"It would be a disservice to myself if I didn’t try to learn as much as
possible while I’m playing with this guy," Irving said. "Every single day
demanding more out of himself, demanding more out of us, the true testament
of a consummate professional. ... I couldn’t be more proud of that guy."
Yes, LeBron James is 3-5 in the Finals. But his legacy has never been more
intact.
“我认为有人会说，他在伟大的尖端，或者说他在伟大的途中。但是他要比这走得更远
。他是个不可思议的了不起的人物。”
“如果和他在一起打球，我却没有尽可能的去学学，我就会帮倒忙，”欧文说到，“每
一天我都要从他那里学到更多，从我们这里学到更多，那就是他无比专业的证据。我实
在太以他为傲了。”
是的，勒布朗在总决赛上三胜五负，可他对联盟的馈赠却无比完美。 |
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